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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. "This created a stepped-wedge study design to study the impact of shared inpatient-outpatient EHR use," the researchers wrote. ON THE RECORD.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. But at the tail end of the 'teens, we see a flowering of innovation that could only have been dreamed of in 2010. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. Monitoring could also reduce readmissions and other costs. Learn more about PointClickCare: [link].

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Altera Digital Health and Columbus Community Hospital Extend Partnership by Seven Years

Digital Health Global

A Paragon client since 2010, the 50-bed hospital will also now leverage upgrade services as part of its Altera subscription to ensure it remains up to date with the EHR and takes full advantage of future Paragon releases.

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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

Pollak says that any EHR supporting the SMART App Launch Framework can install an application to do the validation. To be federally certified, an EHR has to support that framework. is a greatly expanded version of the classic Blue Button created by the Department of Veteran Affairs in 2010. Version 2.0

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A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In addition to the traditional IT functions such as infrastructure management and EHR optimization, the post-COVID-19 era has added to workloads in the form of more "tele," more digital patient engagement and more remote monitoring of patients – all big lifts from an IT perspective.